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For 7,613 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Piccadilly [re-release]
    German emigre Dupont directs all this with the style, flair and tension he brought to his 1925 Emil Jannings classic, "Variety." But it is Wong, shimmering with charisma, who gives Piccadilly its unforgettable center.
  2. Touching the Void
    So well cast and well captured is Touching the Void that it suspends disbelief, making us feel as if we're actually watching Simpson's own icy version of Dante's "Inferno."
  3. Along Came Polly
    Some movies run out of gas. This one could use an alternate fuel source.
  4. Torque
    It may entertain you if you don't mind senseless stories and screaming soundtracks.
  5. Tokyo Godfathers
    A spellbinding piece of Japanese anime from one of the form's new masters, director-writer Satoshi Kon.
  6. Teacher's Pet
    First-time director Timothy Bjorklund, who also shepherded Teacher's Pet on television, conducts some inventive, devilish sequences.
  7. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Though one can question the movie's quality as a documentary -- Broomfield is a dogged but often annoying interviewer, and Churchill's photography is sometimes slapdash -- Aileen raises such troubling issues that it stays, hellishly, in your mind.
  8. Chasing Liberty
    As it turns out, "Liberty," a likable, light-as-air road comedy, is a much better movie than its sour-pun title.
  9. Secret Things
    Trashy porno pretending to be deep.
  10. Japanese Story
    A movie with surprises, some of which you should discover for yourself. But its main surprises may be the power of Collette's performance and the beautifully controlled mood and atmosphere Brooks creates.
  11. Cold Mountain
    This Civil War epic romance is exquisitely shot, lovingly designed and populated with talented name actors. In terms of pedigree and sheer, lush filmmaking, the movie has class written all over it. And that's part of the problem.
  12. Paycheck
    Unfortunately, after watching Paycheck, you may wish you had the picture's gimmickry at your disposal, so you could erase your own memory of it.
  13. Peter Pan
    It's as if the movie itself has been sprinkled with fairy dust, and good thing, too: The world of Peter Pan is, at heart, so troublesome that it might as well also be enchanting.
  14. The Company
    A funny valentine by an old master, woos us into the dance.
  15. The Young Black Stallion
    There are two good things to say about The Young Black Stallion" It's beautifully shot, and it's short.
  16. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Isn't without charm, or laughs. Director Shawn Levy's film features some of the best child actor casting since "The Little Rascals."
  17. Monster
    I don't think it's a great movie -- though Theron's is a near-great performance -- but it's not one you can easily forget.
  18. Mona Lisa Smile
    The men here are negligible, but all the actresses are good -- especially Dunst, who shows a previously unrevealed gift for blending cold conservative roots, starchy appearance, forgiveness and unexpected redemption.
  19. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    Probing... haunting.
  20. Calendar Girls
    It creates a strong sense of a living, breathing community, and you root for its affectionately drawn characters as they experience the giddiness of triumph without forgetting the project's bittersweet inspiration.
  21. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Like all great fantasies and epics, this one leaves you with the sense that its wonders are real, its dreams are palpable.
  22. The Statement
    The Statement is an older man's film, and compassion is one of its strengths; Jewison and Caine make us feel pity and terror for the victims as well.
  23. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    About as sharp an updated version of the original as is Jennifer Lopez's song of the same name a modern, Latina version of the Beatles classic.
  24. Something's Gotta Give
    Doesn't always sizzle, but its stars do.
  25. Stuck on You
    It's not naughty. It's nice. Naughty is funnier.
  26. Big Fish
    A word of warning. Big Fish is so strange and so literary that audiences seeking conventional fare may get impatient with it. But it always takes effort to catch the big ones. This one is worth it.
  27. The Last Samurai
    May fall short of its great model, "Seven Samurai" (almost all action movies do), but it's miles ahead of most of the gadget-ridden adventure epics around now.
  28. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Most movingly, Monsieur Ibrahim takes a provocative subject -- friendship and love between a Jew and a Muslim -- and makes it seem natural and wondrous.
  29. Honey
    Has the shelf life of a dented milk carton. Pop-culture movies in general age rapidly due to ever-changing slang and fashions.
  30. In America
    Family life rarely is portrayed with such warmth, clarity and vibrancy as in In America.
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